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@RedPandaMining don’t forget the ATF as well. just got 6 qts of Toyota ATF for 70 bucks🤯

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@mincbergr i gotta get into the display stand game. i was one of the only modelers at the last competition that didn’t build a cool stand for my aircraft lol

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@ReadingScale i have yet to break the ceiling of displays and that attention to detail 😢🤣

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@Rheumatoidman i post a lot of my build on FB groups as well. are there any groups there that you guys are members of?

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@TomcatJunkie with all the other toxic BS out there. Aviaton Twitter is a breath of fresh air!

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1/48 HK/Eduard B-25 Straffer edition.
99 percent done. i wasn’t gonna remove the carrier film. BUT, the carrier film came off anyway after i flat coated it! 🤣

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@Coypi it’s a solid kit. a bit tedious though. i had large gaps when i put the 2 fuselage halves together. i used black CA glue to fill the gaps. other than that it fit well

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@Rheumatoidman i’m building a nice easy mustang after all this…so i can pull my hair out over a natural metal finish 🤣🤣🤣

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@Rheumatoidman i’m keeping as is. these decals don’t have the same properties as typical eduard decals. i don’t think they can do the old eduard carrier film peel lol

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slow progress when it’s summertime. too much going on. but i have been slowly chipping away at this Edward Strafer kit for a while now

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@DaddyWarpig the day after tomorrow! i watch it probably once every 3 months lol!

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(TL;DR warning again) 41 years ago this month my local UHF channel began airing a kids cartoon unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Half-hour installments. Amazing animation which seemed a cut above most early 80s American childrens TV to that point. And the scripting was of a decidedly more adult nature than either Voltron or G.I. Joe.

It only took one episode to suck me in. Because of the airplanes turning into robots, of course. It was the era of Optimus Prime duking it out with Megatron. Every American boy in 1985 adored both Transformers and GoBots.

But these giant swing-wing "veritechs" were piloted by men. Against enormous aliens who were decidedly different from any I'd seen in any science fiction TV show before. And one episode's plot bled into another. These weren't capsule stories. The entire thing was one big story. Which I avidly tuned in to before school day after day.

The war against the Zentraedi segued to the war against the Robotech Masters, which segued to the war with the Invid. I had no idea at the time I was seeing an Americanized kitbash of three distinct Japanese shows. It was all just extraordinary to me, and I never noticed the seams which had been papered over by American writers.

There aren't many sci-fi franchises which have had an impact on me like ROBOTECH. Not even STAR WARS. The only sci-fi show which has a larger presence in my mental landscape is STAR TREK. And I not only owned the entirety of ROBOTECH on VHS—grainy TV tapes at first, then store-bought official copies after—I played the Palladium role-playing game with my H.S. friends.

The remastered DVD sets which emerged 20 years ago never sat right with me because the sound effects got re-done. And it wasn't until I was on deployment trying to watch ripped .mp4 of the remasters that I realized just how badly those re-done sound effects jagged on my ear. I still remembered *all* the broadcast effects as they had been. And I wanted them back.

Amazon briefly had rights to and streamed an "original broadcast" edition of ROBOTECH which kept the old effects. But this was license short-lived. And I ended up buying a *second* set of DVDs in the vain hope of getting a broadcast-true edition in hard media. Except, that set also ended up being the remastered sound effects.

What to do? I kept hearing about "legacy" copies from turn of the century. After VHS, but before the remasters.

This week I finally located a full 14-disc set of the "legacy" DVDs which supposedly are closest to broadcast. After ripping them to .mkv it seems true. I finally have digital hard media of the actual ROBOTECH I remember from my youth. 🤓

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@BradRTorgersen i am 48 years old and i still dream of being a Veritech pilot! there has never been a piece of science fiction that has affected me as much as Robotech did.

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@mrmikeMTL i’ve been on and off playing the division 2 for 9 years now

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Some badass Upscaled and enhanced F-14 Tomcat shots of VF-1 "Wolfpack" and VF-2 "Bounty Hunters" from 1970s off the deck of the USS Enterprise(CVN-65) also surprise appearance by Iranians F-14's(I think while training at Miramar)👀—All from the same Grumman promo footage.

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let’s gooooo!!!!

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@TomcatJunkie https://t.co/w9gdwdT785

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@TomcatJunkie Does VF-84 Veritech version count? 😉😂

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@heykayadams @primantibros u have to douse it in the little devil hot sauce !!!!